Pencil-casing.



G. S. BUSH.

PENCIL CASING.

APPLIOATION FILED our. 5, 1911.

1,021,350. Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PENCIL-CASING.

Application filed October 5, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES S. BUSH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Casings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a portable selfcontained device adapted, when in use, to automatically remind the user or person wearing it of certain appointments, etc., and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The essential object I have in view is to provide a small, simple, neat, efficient and comparatively inexpensive article or reminder device, capable, when in service of being temporarily held or worn in the palm or on the back of the hand.

I am aware that prior to my invention certain forms and arrangements of writing pads, adapted to be carried in the pocket, have been devised on which items or memoranda could be written or jotted down. In the present device, however, which differs from former constructions, a revoluble and removable protected inner member or cylinder, having a partially exposed, erasive surface, is provided, on which surface the item, note, phrase or character may be written by means of a pencil or other suitable marking element, removably mounted within the cylinder; the device is also provided with means for erasing or cleaning the said surface at will, and means for temporarily mounting the device on a finger of the user.

When not in use the device may be readily I removed from the finger and conveniently carried in the pocket.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of my invention, or automatic memory device; Fig. 2 is a partial longitudinal sectional view of the same, in enlarged scale, showing the relation of the parts when in the normal position; Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view, enlarged, viewed from the underside of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 represents a slightly modified form of the combined pencil holder and eraser.

A, in the drawings indicates the general construction and arrangement of the device, as a whole. The outer member or tubular casing a is preferably made cylin- The wall of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

Serial N0, 652,928-

somewhat shorter tubular cylinder 6 having the outer face or periphery of its barrel part prepared so as to form a surface s on which items, memoranda, etc., may be removably written. The writing tube 6 is rigidly se cured at one end to the inner end portion 0 of the revoluble end cap or head 0. Contiguous to the part 0 and integral with the cap is formed a shoulder 0 inserted in and adapted to frictionally support the adjacent end of the casing a, as clearly shown. The opposite end of the casing is frictionally supported on the shouldered part (I of a cap (Z, removably inserted therein; the latter also has an inner extension 0Z provided with a central longitudinal socket ci adapted to receive and hold the correspond ing portion of a suitable writing device or pencil p; the latter extending endwise within the said tubular cylinder b. The outer end of the cap cl may be provided with a socket (i arranged to receive a plug-shaped piece of erasing rubber 1', or other analogous material, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to adapt the device to be temporarily worn or held in the hand without discomfort, the same may have a digital ring a secured thereto about midway of the casing and diametrically opposed to the latters said opening a To facilitate turning or manipulating the cylinders, etc., the enlarged peripheral portions of the end caps 0 and (Z may be milled or reeded.

In lieu of mounting the erasing device as shown in Fig. 2, the cap (I may be adapted to snugly and bodily receive a pencil p having an extension p carrying the eraser 1', substantially as represented in Fig. 4.

Obviously, in order to make a note or memorandum on the cylinder 7) at any time, it is only necessary to remove the device from the pocket and withdraw the cap (Z, with its pencil, from the casing a, first erasing any old writing from the cylinder 6, or even rotating the latter until a clean surface is exposed. After writing the memorandum, the pencil. and cap are normally replaced in the casing.

When the device is held in the palm, or even on the back of the hand, as in temporary use, the writing or matter previously jetted down or inscribed on the visible surthe carriers attention is thus called has been v attended to or disposed of the device may be removed bodily from the hand and conveniently placed in the pocket, or, if desired, suspended from a garment hook of the user, until its services are again required.

I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent 1. The new and improved automatic memory device herein described, the same consisting of an open-ended outer casing having a longitudinally disposed opening formed in its Wall and a ring rigidly secured to the latter, whereby the device is adapted to be removably attached to the hand of the user, a tube removably and revolubly mounted in said casing having its peripheral surface adapted to be Written upon, one end of the tube being closed and forming a support for the corresponding end of said casing, a removable cap element supporting and closing the other ends of the casing scribed, the combination With a tubular outer casing having a normally-open longitudinal slot formed in its Wall and a digital ring secured to and extending laterally from the casing at a point substantially opposite said slot, of an inner tube removably seated in said casing having its surface adapted to be written upon While contained in the casing, one end of the tube being arranged to support the corresponding end of the casing, a cap member removably mount-- ed in the other end of the casing for supporting the corresponding ends of the tube and easing members, a pencil and eraser mounted in the last-named cap, and having the pencil normally inserted and concealed Within the inner tube.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

CHARLES S. BUSH. Witnesses:

GEO. H. REMINGTON, CALVIN H. BROWN.

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